They actually do both, they're known to use their Manna-clone system that orders warehouse workers around to "find problems" with the performance of anyone involved in unionizing and fire them as an early line of defense. They've done this with unionization attempts in the US before (at least one of those warehouses did successfully unionize despite that). Shutting down the FC and moving out of town is their nuke-it-from-orbit option when all else has failed.

Penalties are light and unlikely enough in many jurisdictions for employers to consider it a cost of doing business though. See what Amazon's been doing in their warehouses in Quebec and BC for examples. Coincidentally, guess which Canadian provinces have the most videogame dev studios...

Maybe a system where everyone gets a share of collective productivity but has to take a turn at work could make those people feel better. So everyone gets their lifetime supply of food/shelter/healthcare/transportation/entertainment in return for their 5-10 years working or whatever the economy actually needs, so there's no shortage of human labor and nobody feels that there's an unfair division of labor either.

Of course the problem with that is another problem contributing to the current situation, there are people who seek maximally unequal shares of wealth for themselves and would fight an egalitarian utopia tooth and nail. Rich and powerful people who can contribute to the 10,000 year old effort of tricking the proles into propping up the aristocracy.

It's not the worst idea ever but it's worse than better options the billionaires want to distract us from with discussion of UBI, like universal basic services and democratic socialism, ideas where they don't retain as much of their wealth and power as they might with UBI.

I might've gone to one but it seems they're all in the past now. Maybe I'll remember to check next year.

This is a common myth that's often repeated because it's useful, in business for wealth advisors scaring their clients into retaining their services, and in fiscally conservative politics to promote indefinite patience with the ever-worsening moral horror show produced by runaway inequality.

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I remember there was a study in the 2010s that found that it takes something like 900 years for a wealthy family to lose its wealth but all my search attempts to find it are flooded with more of this folksy "3rd-generation curse" myth, anyone remember it?

Have they checked out Hildon or Plasma Mobile?

The first country to release an LLM that's like what Claude Mythos pretended to be might destroy other countries several glorious winning seconds before it destroys itself. Winning!

My point is there shouldn't be any "likely" or "probably" involved here.

The announcement should clearly state what the threat vector was.

Seems irresponsible to me.

Shouldn't the first order of business be to announce what extension was compromised so others can avoid it?

Doesn't the use of social media involve reading?

Or am I misunderstanding what social media is in this context?

The point, which you seem to have missed, is that there's no evidence that this was a targeted theft of extremely valuable intellectual property, rather than a simple theft of luggage, which probably happens several hundred times every day at airports throughout the country.

The relevant question could be posed this way:

If I steal a random box that I see on the street, should I be sentenced more harshly if the box contains the Hope Diamond versus a package of bubble gum?

Is there any evidence that this chap knew what was in the suitcases?

It may have been a simple opportunistic theft by someone hoping to find something of value in random luggage. And when he discovered that he hadn't boosted a laptop or some other easily-fenced item, the stuff may have simply been dumped in a nearby alley or dumpster.

Is there any evidence either way?

Sadly, I have forgotten how to use a slide rule, though my old slipstick is still sitting at the back of the bookshelf near my computer. Probably covered with dust, though.

I do still use my abacus occasionally, but not "as designed". It's handy as all get-out for binary arithmetic and tracking bit flipping. Which isn't what an abacus is for, of course, but that's what I use it for.

The summary says that this thing is supposed to be geothermal powered.

So they just have the cart before the horse here. They need to set up the geothermal power plant first, then build the datacenter after the power plant is operational.

And everybody will be happy.